Ascending
- heartsinger1
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min read
"Now we ask the central question: How does the soul ascend to God?" Guyon
In Psalm 24 David also contemplates ascending to God but he asks a different question.
Not 'how' but 'who'.
His answer:
those who are clean
whose works and ways are pure
whose hearts are true and sealed by truth
who never deceive
whose words are sure
But then his conclusion, in verse 6, states:
"They will stand before God, for they seek the pleasure of God’s face.."
That raises a different question: What came first? The character or the seeking?
We come again to the triune nature of man: spirit, soul, and body
I believe my spirit is:
'raised up with Christ...and ascended with Him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm...now co-seated as one with Christ' (Eph 2:6 TPT)
I believe my body, or desires of my flesh, is dead:
"...knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.." Rom 6:6 NASB
So now I am free to use my body to glorify God in all things. That brings us to the soul.
According to Guyon the soul ascends to God by giving up self.
"The hour must come when you cease all living in the realm of the self! You must cease to exist in self so that the Spirit of the Eternal Word may exist in you. By giving up of your own life, you make a way for His coming! And it is in your dying that He lives!"
My soul is subject to my spirit. My spirit is alive by the Holy Spirit. Therefore I have the mind of Christ.
So my will is free to choose. I am not a robot to God's whims. I have a choice.
In order to strengthen my will to God's ways I must input God thoughts; about me, about Him, about His power, about my position.
As I meditate on the ways of God, I then align my soul to the 'annihilating power of divine love'.
It is here His will becomes mine, His heart beats in my chest, and His view, of me and others, becomes real.
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